Exercise science professor Iain Hunter (above left, #4) proves that BYU professors practice what they teach. Hunter recently placed first in the masters division of the St. George Marathon and fourth overall.

For decades, honeybees have been battling a deadly disease that kills off their babies (larvae) and leads to hive collapse. Now an undergraduate student at BYU has produced a natural way to eliminate the scourge.

Dr. Roundy and a number of his students were funded with a group of universities and government research agencies for a project called SageSTEP. The research is a scientific approach to managing the somewhat threatened sagebrush steppe ecosystem, which covers millions of acres in the western U.S.